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~ Gunsmoke – The Choice, Part 2 You’re hired! Andy gets a job – the kind of job that requires a lot of responsibility. He’ll be riding shotgun for Jim Buck, the stagecoach driver. He sits on top of the stagecoach beside the driver and carries a shotgun...

~ Gunsmoke: The Choice, Part 1 New Folks Showing Up All the Time Andy Hill is the new guy in Dodge City. It’s the late 1800’s (around the 1870s) when people were moving west across America. Towns were being settled and growing into cities. Its a fast...

~ The Lives of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 7 A Clear Conscience In this episode, it’s “every man for himself”. When the police raid the mansion, they’re wondering what they should do with the heroin. Should they abandon the heroin and run, or ...

~ Harry Lime, Ticket to Tangier, Part 6 It’s Getting Overcrowded Harry and Patsy have company – an unexpected visitor. He says he’s an associate of her late husband. In other words, he’s a gangster who had some business dealings with her husband. He kn...

~ The Lives of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 5 It’s Against My Morals: In this episode, Harry finds out why Patsy brought him to Tangier. She has something to show him and a job for him to do. But what Patsy expects of him goes against his morals...

~ The Lives of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 4 Along for the ride Let’s face it, Harry knew that he wasn’t the one to call the shots. Obviously, someone had looked for him with the personal ad in the newspaper, led him to the concierge who handed...

~ The Lives of Harry Lime, Ticket to Tangier, Part 3: Too Good to be True: Who is this woman? Already very attracted to her beauty, Harry now he finds that she can really dance too. In fact, she seems to be too good at it. It makes him question her tru...

The Adventures of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 2 of 7 Nothing to lose: Harry wants to get to Tangier where he seems to have been promised a lucrative deal. The only problem is, he doesn’t have the money to get there. As he puzzles over his probl...

The Adventures of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 1 of 7 Not the best role model Today’s episode open’s with a little history on Harry Lime. It connects the Harry Lime of the radio plays with the Harry Lime of the 1949 movie, The Third Man. So, who...

~ Part 7 of a “Dangerous Assignment” old-time radio play Backed Into a Corner Government agent Mitchel has figured out how the oil was stolen and who did it, but how will he make it out of the ruins alive? It looks like the secret will die with him, bu...

~ Part 6 of a “Dangerous Assignment” old-time radio play Unexpected Meet Up Steve Mitchel goes into the ruins to investigate. He goes down into the basement of an old building only to meet up with Haroon. What is Haroon up to? He looks highly suspiciou...

~ Part 5 of a “Dangerous Assignment” old-time radio play Rivalry: We left Government Agent, Steve Mitchel, diving into the water to dodge a bullet. In this episode, he gets fished out of the water by the Saudi police. Although Lieutenant Samka saved Mi...

— Part 4 of “Find 100,000 Barrels of Oil, a Dangerous Assignment radio play The Lost City of Enzak Mitchel continues his investigation by accompanying Dean, the pilot who monitors the pipeline. As he flies along the pipeline looking for leaks or any ...

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DL081: Hercule Poirot and the Case of the Careless Victim — Act 3: Scene 1 Poirot points out the clues Miss Fletcher and Inspector Stevens are quite amazed at Poirot. How did he figure out that this man wasn’t Mr Parrish? Over tea in the airport café...

DL080: Hercule Poirot and the Case of the Careless Victim — Act 2: Scenes 5&amp; 6 Tragedy Strikes Laura never did get to see her father, and now he’s been in an accident. What a tragedy! Will she ever see him again? Is he going to be all right? Insp...

DL077: Hercule Poirot: The Case of the Careless Victim — Act 1: Scene 4 Police Protection Inspector Stevens arrives at the hotel already predicting who the victim and the murderer are. However, he is in for a bit of a surprise. After identifying the ...

DL076: Hercule Poirot: The Case of the Careless Victim — Act 1: Scene 3 A Logical Explanation Poirot wants to take the elevator down to the hotel lobby to meet Inspector Stevens of the New York police force. While waiting for the elevator, he expla...

Hercule Poirot: The Case of the Careless Victim — Act 1: Scenes 1&amp; 2 Apartment Hunting Hercule Poirot is the famous French-speaking detective from Belgium. As the story opens, he has just moved to New York and is looking for an apartment. He’s told...

CBS Radio Mystery Theatre — You’re Better Off Guilty ~ Act 3: Scenes 4~6 Smoking Gun In a follow up visit from Miss Evans, the victim’s manager, the Inspector gets his ‘smoking gun’ — that is to say, he gets all the evidence he needs to arrest and ch...

CBS Murder Mystery Theatre ~ You’re Better Off Guilty, Act 2, Scenes 4-6 ~ The Sex Symbol A Whole New Image Can you name off any sex symbols? That’s someone who is extremely sexually attractive. They’re probably a famous person, a celebrity like an ac...

~ DL071: You’re Better Off Guilty, Act 2, Scene 1-3, “Two Plus Two Equals Four” ~ Put two and two together “Put two and two together” is an idiom. When we “put two and two together”, we are able to draw a conclusion from the information or evidence t...

~ DL070: You’re Better Off Guilty, Act 1, Scene 2&amp; 3 — A Growing Suspicion ~ A Growing Suspicion Ralph is involved in the Jill Joras case because he was the one who found the body. She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car. Ralph could tel...

~ CBS Radio Mystery Theater, You’re Better Off Guilty — Act 1, Scene 1 ~ Report a Crime I’m here to report a crime Before today, Ralph’s life was simple. He put in his nine-to-five at an accounting firm and took home his paycheck. Nothing too exciting ...

~ CBS Radio Mystery Theater, You’re Better Off Guilty — Trailer ~ An imponderable suggestion This episode is just a teaser. It’s a short trailer – you know how movies have little short movie clips to get you interested in watching that movie? That’s ...

~ CBS Radio Mystery Theater, The Lady Was a Tiger, Act 3, Scenes 5-7 — Tying Up Loose Ends ~ A Few Loose Ends: This episode wraps up the play with a few surprises. Carol is in for a surprise. She finds out how Larry hid Professor Teal’s note right un...

~ CBS Radio Mystery Theater, The Lady Was a Tiger, Act 3, Scenes 1-4 — True Colors ~ True Colors Is Carol a femme fatale, or is she actually Larry’s best friend? Is she the rattler that only pretends to give him fair warning, or is she really on his si...

~ CBS Radio Mystery Theater, The Lady Was a Tiger, Act 2, Scenes 4-5 — The Rattler’s Warning ~ A femme fatale double agent frames an unemployed reporter for homicide in Paris. The Rattler’s Warning: Larry is thankful to be out of prison, but he’s still...

~ CBS Radio Mystery Theater, The Lady Was a Tiger, Act 2, Scenes 1-3 — The Jailbird Walks ~ A femme fatale double agent frames an unemployed reporter for homicide in Paris. No good to us in jail: In this episode, Larry, now a murder suspect, is now a j...

Mr District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, Scene 10 No way is that cop gonna’ talk! In our last episode, the District Attorney’s chat with Mr Butler alerted Butler that he needed to do something fast or he and Stanley would be caught. The policeman...

Mr District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, Scene 9 [inigocia: Bigstock.com] Brilliant deduction After finding a canceled debt in Taylor’s books, the District Attorney pays Butler a visit. Butler had held the mortgage on Taylor’s businesses, and now...

Mr District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (scene 8): Gone fishing? Where’s the District Attorney? He hasn’t gone fishing, has he? In this episode, Harrington comes looking for the DA, but the DA is not in his office right now. While waiting for th...

Mr District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (scene 7): The heat is on, but Stanley is totally unaware of it. Boy, does this kid ever need to wake up and smell the coffee! This one’s on the house! Two episodes ago, Mr. Stanley, the hitman, killed j...

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 6): Just the stooge: The District Attorney and his secretary are talking about the case and they are quite satisfied that they have enough evidence to convict Mr. Taylor of jury tampering. It looks...

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 5): Everything to lose: The District Attorney has just informed Mr Taylor that a member of the jury, Mrs Clark, had charged him with swaying the jury into voting “not guilty”. He’s been warned. H...

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 4) Taking offense: Harrington has rounded up the accused jury foreman, Mr Taylor, and brought him back to the DA’s office. When Taylor hears the charge against him, he takes offense. “Ridic...

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 3) [VadimGuzhva/Bigstock.com] STANLEY: I wanna thank you, Mr. Butler. BUTLER: For what? STANLEY: For the fix. BUTLER: You mean the verdict? Gangster Etiquette In this episode, we see into the gan...

Mr. District Attorney: Intimidated Jury, (Scene 2) It’s not your fault: Harrington saw that the morning paper had an article about the Stanley trial. The paper supports the D.A. The article criticized the jury for reaching such a ridiculous verdict. ...

Mr District Attorney — Intimidated Jury, Scene 1: A Reasonable Doubt The Jury is Still Out As our story opens, we find a crime has already been committed. We are in a courtroom waiting for the jury to return with their verdict. Will they find Mr Stanle...

The Old Time Radio Legal Thriller: Mr. District Attorney was a popular radio program on NBC and ABC radio stations from 1939 to 1952. Each episode is a legal story that centers on the court trial. Meet the Jury: When a serious crime has been committe...

What have I done! Archie is shocked when he realizes what he’s done. There’s his dad telling him he’s not broke, yet Archie had heard him worrying over how to make money — he’d heard him with his own ears! Archie’s mom pulls the two strands of the stor...

At a Time Like This Fred arrives back home with the party food. Of course, he has quite a story to tell his wife… and she has a new turn of events to tell him about, too. From this point on, a series of events take place that tell Fred and Mary somethi...

The Unwitting Charity Case When Fred hurries down to the corner store for party snacks, he experiences what it is like to be a charity case (「仁愛案件」，貧寒人家) – someone you do a favor for out of pity. But he doesn’t really know what’s going on. Mr. Pringle,...